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SEEN IN ,AZ ILLUSTRA IONS. .AtM That Puzzled IntiUltlv Boy CoBfnlMd HI Ifmiorous Father. '. Character That Appear to Hm an KxteoslT Wardrobe. "Papa," aaked the boy, looking np from his book, "can a man grow a real beard In one day?" "I should pay not," answered the father cautiously, being mindful of the fact that within a week the boy had put to him this question "Why does a woman walk on her heela in crosMriK a muddy street, " and when he answvred that he did not know, the boy hud Raid. To get across." Bat there was no about the question the boy asked, nor about the next one, which was this: "Can a man get bald in one night?" "He might in an Indian country," an swered the father, whereupon there w.m Hence for a little time. Then the boy impatiently said: "I don't understand these pictures at alL Everybody in them keeps chang ing around, and 1 don't know who is who, and 1 don't see how they kinv each other half a day running." The book was "The Swiss Family Robinson," and the title page declared that therw were "100 illustrations." It was worth while to follow the "family' through the pictures. Putting a,side a colored frontispiw which depicted a lusty barelegged boy on a rock, with a polo cap crowning a shock of yellow hair parted in the back, a. bow in his hand and his eyes fixed or a spouting whale that looked like a sar dine sneezing violently, the panorama opened with the "family" kneeling in grateful prayer for its escape. The father, with head bald on top, smooth shaven face and long locks of white hair falling on his shoulders was the central figure, and made an ideal vicar of Wakefield. Fritz, the eldest boh, worfra long coat and long trousers, and Fraw, the youngest, was distinguished by a large button on his coat in the email of the back. This was in the fore noon. UOnTXINO CHANGES. A few hours later, in the afternoon, behold thechangel The father had grown fine, closely trimmed 6ide whiskers, and he and his sons had changed their straight locks for crisply curling hair. From a gentle faced Madonna the mother had been changed into a vivacious looking Jewess, and, strangest of all, two St Bernards in the first picture had become tnm bulldogs, with every appearance of being able to make a good fight. Then there came a lightning change. In five minutes their father's whiskers had grown an inch or two, Fritz and he had gotten into knickerbockers, termi nating in the father's case in blue stock ings and buckled shoes, both of them had lost the curl out of their hair, and one of the bulldogs had been metamor phosed into a setter standing over a red ish brown rabbit that was declared in the text to be an agouti. Noon, the next day, and the father and Fritz were again presented, seated this time by a brook, but conveniently near a stone jug that might have held molasses and might not. The father looked like a Highlander in a farmer's clothes, and Fritz, who had grown three or four years older, was dressed like Danton when that gentleman was of some con sequence in Paris and looked like him. One of the dogs had become a King Charles spaniel. The other did not ap pear, but was probably in seclusion, set tling on the breed in which he would next appear. The pair were on a hunting excursion on their deserted island. A few hours later Fritz had gotten his 6hock of yel low hair back, and traded his Danton costume for knickerbockers, blue stock ings and a 6ack coat, while his father had somewhere picked up a Russian peas ant's dress, and grown a full brown beard, and the King Charles had become a setter. The jug had disappeared. PERSONAL APPEARANCE. That night the father shaved himself down to the side whiskers, dyed his own and Fritz's hair black, put a sailor shirt on himself and a pair of striped lawn tennis trousers on Fritz, and the next morning went out sailing. While they were absent the Jewish faced mother changed her countenance for a subdued Irish, arrayed herself in a dark blue gown that disclosed a red petticoat, and put a yellow handkerchief on her head. Taking Jack, one of her other sons, and putting a trim polo cap on his yellow locks, the two, accompanied by one of the St.' Bernards, went out for a walk. A day or two later the father had got ten back bis full, yellow beard, which he seemed to wear with his peasant cos tume, and one of the dogs had changed into a hound. But if you hoped the father would stay that way long enough for you to get acquainted with him, di vest your mind of that thought. Before night he had returned to his trim side whiskers and curly hair, while Fritz had shrunk in length, broadened in girth, and put on long trousers that were too short for him and heavy shoes. And so the pictures run. The father changes his clothes, his beard and his hair at least once, and often two or three times a day, Fritz is a good second in this kaleidoscopic performance, the mother facially runs through all the races and exhibits a bewildering number of differ ent costumes, the little boys must have been branded or their parents would never have been able to keep track of them;o extraordinary were the changes they underwent, and the dogs offered enough varieties to have given a capital bench 6how. The "one hundred illustra tions" were altogether the most entertain ing things about the copy of "The Swiss Family Robinson" over which the boy puzzled and the boy's father laughed. .New York Times. A veteran Provincetown (Mass.) fish erman, who claims to know, says that - when mackerel are on the move the ad--ranced body is entirely composed of fe male fish, while the rear column is formed of t -J. ' CHANGE! THE I) HAND Cr Fher la Said tw .Be lOriiil and Raaltl Means ofe Rrnelt.itlon. Colonel Henry tCtsdale, f the Royal engineers, claims to have discovered a certain and rapid menns of resuscitating persons from the effect h of r. allocation. A nap per among the nin under his com mand at Chatham wait one day found enveloped in t!i fold of a half empty war balloon The coal gas with which it had been inflated had sulfocated him, and to all appearances he was a dead man. But efforts were made to restore him. though the pulseJeAH heart aad ca daverous face of tb umn gave no en couraeiuent to persevere. In a mo ment of something like inspiration it occurred to Colonel Elsdale to sead for some tubes of compressed oxygen, which had been prepared for the oxyhydrogen light. This pure oxygen, at a very high pres sure, was hurriedly conveyed into the mouth of the prostrate sapper by means if inserting the nozzle of the valve be tween his teeth, and the supply was gently turned on" to the smallest ex tent. The effect was absolutely instan taneous. In an instant he opened his eyes and seized the nozzle between his teeth. In bhort, the sapper was not only thoroughly revived within a few min utes, but in half an hour talked away, quite well, to the barracks, and refused to go to tue military Hospital, as wan suggested by his commanding officer. Of course the objection will be raised tnat everyooay nas not tubes of pure oxygen at high pressure in readiness to apply to such cases. Happily oxygen in quantities as large as those administered is not needed, and it can be 6tored "in small, 6trong bottles made of the finest steel, with a valve giving an absolute herrnetio seal." These vessels may be as small as a soda water bottle, and may bo made part of the medical stock of every doctor. Oxygen at any degree of compression required can, in fact, now be obtained, and the whole apparatus for restoring vitality can be packed in a small box quite portable. What possibilities may not such a dis covery as that to which we have drawn attention involve I It is equally availa ble, we are assured, for those persons who have been asphyxiated ,by choke damp in co;d mines, or by ordinary coal gas. People apparently drowned, and those insensible from long exposure in the rigging of a ship, might also be saved from an untimely end by what Colonel Elsdale calls "a dose of oxygen." It would probably be invaluable, too, in cases of suffocation from the fumes of charcoal, or in cases where chloroform had operated injuriously on a weak heart. Such a discovery should at once occupy the attention of the Royal Col lege of Physicians, with a view of ascer taining whether Colonel Elsdale has overrated the beneficient effects to be an ticipated from the administration of pure oxygen. London Chronicle. How It Feels to Have a Bag In One's Ear. "A bug in his ear," is a figure very ex tensively used in common conversation. But, reader, did you ever have a bug in your ear in fact? If not, you have no idea how it feels. B. F. Tomlinson, who experienced the sensation, says he never suffered such torture in his life. The bug crawled into his ear while he was lying in bed asleep, between 11 and 12 o'clock one night. It was only a com mon candlebug or fly, but the degree of torture one of them can inflict while in the ear is beyond the scope of the imagi nation. Mr. Tomlinson said that when he awoke he dreamed that a railway train had jumped the track, struck him in the ear and was plowing its way through his head. The train kept going, but it seemed that it would never get through. Occasionally it would stop and then start again with renewed force. Then again the train seemed to be at a stand still, but the wheels would be turning with lightning rapidity. The train would move off gradually with a grating noise, and would not stop till the whistle blew for the next station or it ran off the track or collided with another train, which frequently occurred. Mr. Tom linson stood the torture till daylight, when he sent for a doctor, who succeeded in fishing out the bug, which in the meantime had died. Mr. Tomlinson said that if the bug had remained in his ear an hour longer he would have been a raving maniac. Mexico (Mo.) Intelli gencer. Strengthening; Cast Iron. Some of the most prominent iron founders are introducing a new and sim ple practice in order to secure stronger castings, the method in question consist ing in placing thin sheets of wrought iron in the center of the mold previous to the operation of casting. This method was first resorted to, it appears, in the casting of thin plates for the ovens of cooking stoves, it being found that a sheet of thin iron in the center of a quar ter inch oven plate rendered it practi cally unbreakable by fire. " This result has led to the process be ing now applied to the casting of large iron pipes, a core of sheet iron imparting additional strength and lessening the liability to any fracture. As an evi dence of the additional strength capable of being imparted by this means, it is stated that a plate of iron one-fourth of an inch thick, cast with a perforated sheet of 27-wire gauge wrought iron in the center, possessed six times the strength of a similar cast plate with no core. The quarter inch plate had the strength of a plate one inch thick. New York Sun. A Door In an Old Church. : Now and then a small door may be seen high up in the piers that divide the nave from the chancel. This is the door that once gave access from the winding stair within the pier to the footway on the top of - the screen with which most churches were once provided. When screens were found inconvenient " and were removed, these doors were left. Ress church, Herefordshire, has a no ticeable example; Hinckley church. Lei- , cestershire, has another. Gentleman's Hagann. . J L-rw- fc W,.- a . . 4 . A novel plan for ucti2tiia3 a church debt baa b-.-n hit upon in Mel bourne, Australia. The church com mittee or vestry, as he case may be divide the total debt among themselves, and each man insure his life for the amonnt that falls l ma share. The policies are transferred to the church and the annual payments on them are made out of the collections. Then, of course, as the members of the commit tee "drop off," the sums insured on their lives drop in, and later, when the only survivor dies, the last installment of the church debt is paid. Pall Mall Gazette People Who Live Over 2,000 Feet High. The population between 2.000 and 5.000 feet is found mainly on the slope of the great western plains. In this region the belt between 2.000 and 8,000 feet is al most everywhere the debatable ground between the arid region of the Cordil leran plateau and the humid region of the Mississippi valley. Above 3,000 feet irrigation ia almost universally neces sary for success in agricultural opera tions. Washington Star. ThA most nnhannv nerirwl nf imarrinmi j according to French divorce statistics, is for the reriod extending from rh fifth i 0 to the tenth year. After that the figures drop rapidly. Only 28 per cent, of the couples seek divorce between their tenth and twentieth years of union. Only one pair in 100 6eeks to cut the knot after the period over thirty and under forty years. The Forth bridge was begun in 1881. There were then only two cantalever bridges in existence, one of them carry ing the Cincinnati Southern railroad across the Kentucky river, and the other spanning the river Warthe at Posen, in Germany Both of these were built in 1870. Among the articles made of asbestos are mittens to guard the hands of fire men, assavers. refiners and others who are exposed to burning. As the mate rial is not affected by heat, the work man thus protected can grasp hot irons, crucibles and the like without discom fort Next Monday night the amusemnt lovers will be amused by the come dians lirown and Green with the Creoles, Kight comedians, ten beau tiful Creole ladies, with the Picka ninny quartette, should be able to entertain an audience. Elegant cos tumes will be used in the first part. Mr. Downing assures the Platts mouth people that everything will be first-class and will give the audi ence a surprise when the curtain goes up. Secure your tickets now at J. P. Youngs. Price 50c, Company will ar rive Monday morning from Omaha. New Barn New.btoek. Klam Parmele has pushed his way to the front as a livery man by keeping nothing but the finest car riages and buggies and best horses to be found in the state. Those wanting a satisfactory livery can't do better than to call on Mr. Par mele. dtf Quilting and piecing, comforting and crazy patch work and carpet rag sewing satisfactorily done by Mrs. Vroman, 513 North Sixth street, Plattsmouth, Neb. tf I think Kly's Cream Balm is the best remedy for catarrh I ever saw. I never took an3'thing that relieved me so quickly, and I have not felt so well for a long time. I used to be troubled with severe headaches two or three times a week. J. A. Alcorn, Ag't U. P. R. R. Co., Eaton, Colo. 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Will you suffer with Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint? Shiloh's Vit- alizer is guaranteed to cure you. 2 Wreck on the B.4M, A freight train was doubled up between here and Lincoln this mor ning which delayed the morning east bound trains. No particulars further at this hour accessible. What did you say? I said that Gering & Co's soda water and frost ed cream are out of sight, tf Rheumatism Cured in Day. "Mystic Cure" for rheumatism and neuralgia radically cured in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It re moves at once the cause and the di sease immediately dissappears. The first dose greatly benefits. 75c Sold by F, G. Fricke, Druggist, wt Man is often deceaved in the age of a woman by her gray hair, Ladies you can appear young and preveul true grayness ly useing Hall s Hair Renewer. J, 1 IS (gl!d3IS When you take Quality and Make in Consideration you Can n. Huy Cheaper nnj Place in the World than of The Only One Price Clothier in Oass Co. 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There were sixteen weeks that we had to keep his hands tied to the cradle and hold them when he was taken 'up ; and had to keep mittens on his hand to keep his linger nails ont of the sores, as he wold scratch it he could in any way ttet his hands loose. We know your Cutictri Remedies cured him. We feel safe in rec coinending them to others. Geo. B. and Janetta Harris, Webster. Ind. CUTICURA BE80LVEST The new blood and skin purifier, and greatod of Fumor Kemedies. cleanses the bioes of all imparities and poisonous elements and thus remove the cause, and Cuticura, the great Skin Cure and Cuticura Soap, an exquisite Skin Purifier and Beautifier. to clear tbe skin and scalp and restore the hair), speedily cure every humor and disease of the skin, scalp, and blood, with lss of hair, whether itching, burning, scaly, pimply, and blotchy, skin scalp and "blood di sease, from plmyles to sdrof ula from infancy to age when the beet physicians fail. Sold everywhere. Price Cuticura. 50c, Soap 25c : Kksolvknt $1.00. Prepared bv the Pot ter Drug and Chemical Corporation. Bostyn. ESSend for how to cu e Skin Ceseaaee." skin and scalp purified and beauti- jfled Cuticubi SoAP,Abselutely pure PAINS AND WEAKNESSES Of females iastantly relieved by that npw flpfrnnt and i ti f u 1 i t il V stntltflntA to pain Inflamation and Weakness me vHiicun rn mas ter Hair chains, rinfja, crosses an hair work of all kinds to order. Mrs. A. Knee. tf 1726 Locust St. Ladies, among that sample line are some of the finest shoes you ever laid eyes on Wm. Herold & Son's tf Itch on human ans horses and all animals cured in 39 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. This never failp. Sold by F, G. Fricke & Co., druggist, Plattsmouth. wtf. A Safe investment. Ic one which is guaranteed to bring you satifaotary results, or in case of failuree a return of purchase price. On this safe plain you can buy from our advisertise Druggist a bottle of Dr. King.s NewDiscrrery for consumption. It is guaranteed to bring relief in every case, when used for any affection of Throat, Lungs, or chest, such as Consum ption, Inflammation of Lungs Bron chitis' Asthma, Whooping Cough, Croups. ets., etc. It is pleasant and gareeable to taste, perfectly safe and Trial bottles free atF. G. Fricke & Co' e DrugstorL iinr Ok i JJ(D Examine his Super or THAN THOSE KEPT I5Y HIS COMPETITORS, From the Best Houses in America. JOE But he Will Sell You The Best Goods FOR THE LEAST ILfcOXTEV. or as sr (o 2H HARNESS! FRED GORDER The only Implement dealer who has made a success in Caes County THK best of harness, both double and single may be found at my storeand everything in the harness line also buggies and carriages which are first-class in every respact, being the lightest, strongest add easiest riding vehicles on earth. I ALSO have a large lot of Schutler, Noline, Uain and Sterling wagons Spring wagons, road carts, and plows of all discription. -o- Plattsmouth - - BURLINGTON & MISSOURI RIVER R. It. V TIME TABLE. J OF DAILY PASSENGER TRAINS GOING EAST No. 2 5 : 05 P. M, No. 4 10:30 a. n. No. 8 7; 44 p. m No. 10 9 :45 a. m No, 12 10 :14 a. m No. 20 8 :30 a. m GOING WEST Nol, 3 :30 a. m. No. 3 5 :30 p. m No. 5, 9 :25 a. m. No. T ' .-15 a. m. No. 9.. .. 6 :25 p.m. No. U 5 :25 p. m. No, 19 11 .-05 a.m. SECRET SOCIETIES r r f s KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS- Gauntlet Lodge no. 47. Meets every Wednesday evening at their hall In Parmele & Craig block. All vis itlni? knights are cordially invited to attend C. C. Marshall. C. C. ; ti Dovey, K, K. S. YOUNG MEN'S CHKISTION ASSOCIATION Waterman block. Main Street. Kooms open from 8 :30 a m to 9 :30 p mj For men only Gospel meeting every Sunday afternoon at 4 o'elock. AO. U. W 8, Meeis first and third Friday eve-iincs of each month at G. A. K. Hall in Rockwook block. Frank Vermilyea, M, W. D, B Euersole, Recorder. A O. U. W. No. 84 Meets eecond and feurth Fridav eveninos in the month at G. A. K. hall in Rockwood block. E. J. Morgan, M W, F, P. Brown, Keaorder, ROYAL A RCA N AM Cs Council No 1021, 1 v Mett at the K, of P. hail in the Parmele & Craig block over Bennett & Tutu, viairing brethren invited. Henry Herold, Regent; Thos W ailing. Secretory. CASS LODGE, No. 146,1. 0. O. F. meets ev ery Tuesday night at their ball In Fitzgerald block. All Odd Fellows are cordially invited o attend when visiting in the city. J Cory. N. G. 8. W, Bridge, Secretary. Will you suffer with dyspepsia and liver complaint? Shiloh's Vet alizer guaranteed to cure you. 1-tf 3Iake and Quality oiV Gqq&& FqujmImq) t Plattsmouth, Neb. HARNESS, f .A.T- -o- o - - Nebraska PLACES OF WORSHIP. Catholic St. Paul's Church, Oak. between Fifth and Sixth. Father Carney, Pastor? Services: Mass at 8 and 10 :30 A. m. Sunday School at 2 :30, with benediction. J Christian. Corner Locust and Eighth St. Services morning and evening. Elder J. K. . Reed, pastor. Sunday School 10 A. m. Episcopal. Ht. Luke's Church, corner Third and Vine. Rev. H B. Burgees, paetor. Ser vices : 11 A. M. and 7 :30P. m. Sunday School at 2 :30P. 91. Gkbman Methodist. Corner Sixth fit. and Granite. Rev. Hirt. Factor. Services : 11 a.m. and 7 :30 p. M. Sunday School 10 :30 a. m. Pbeshvtebian. fervices In new church, cor ner Sixth and Granite sts. He v. J. T. Baird, pastor. Sunday-school at 9 ; 30 ; Preaching at 11 a. in. and 8 p. m. The Y. R. . C. E of this church meet every Sabbath evening at 7 :15 in the basement of thechucrh. All are invited to attend these meetings. Fikst Methodist. Sixth St., betwen Mala and Pearl. Rev. J. It. M BucknvT. pastor. Services : 11 a. m.. 8 :00 P. m. Sumfay School 9 :30 a. m. Prayer meeticg Wednesday even ing. German Prebbtteri an. Corner Main and Ninth. Rev. Wltte, pa-stor. Services usual hours. Sunday bchool 9 :30 A. M. Sweedish Congregational. Granite, be tween Fifth and Sixth. Colored Baptist. Mt. Olive. Oak. between Tenth and Eleventh, Rev. A. Rorwell, pas tor. Services 11 a- m. and 7 :30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Yocwo Men's Christian Association Rooms in W aterman block. Main street. Gos pel meeting, for men only, every Sunday af ternoon at 4 o'clock. Rooms open week days from 8:30 a. m.. to a : 30 p.m. 8outh Park Tabernaclk. Bev.' J. M. Wood, Pastor. Services : Sunday School, 10 a. in.: Preaching, 11 a. ni. and 8 p. m. ; prayer meeting Tuesday night ; choir prac tice Friday night. All are welcome. WA nted Au active, relioble man salary tit to f 80 monthly, with increase, to repreoafil In his own section a responsible New York House. References, man cr actcb&b, bock Box 1585, New Yosk. r